What are HTML Imports and How Do They Work?

CodingPaula Borowska • May 07, 2014

Have you ever noticed that including another HTML page inside another is like a foreign concept? It’s something that should be easy to do but you don’t see it often. It’s not impossible but tricky. However, HTML imports makes placing …

UX and Content Strategy: The Complete Guide

UX DesignArmen Ghazaryan • May 05, 2014

What is more important: User experience or content? I hate this type of question and to me they don’t make sense. It’s like asking a kid who he loves more — mom or dad. Or even worse, trying to figure …

Using backface-visibility and CSS Animations

CodingJoni Trythall • April 28, 2014

There are so many fun and interesting design possibilities with backface-visibility. When you turn an element over, what do you want to see? By default, we see a mirror image of an element when it is turned over. While this effect …

How to Create a Splash Screen Illustration

Adobe ToolsBenedikte Vanderweeën • April 10, 2014

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of creating a splash screen illustration using vector elements created in Illustrator and applying them to a template in Photoshop before exporting for the web. Splash Screen What exactly is a …

35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs

FreebiesAndrian Valeanu • March 30, 2014

Background pattern designs are pretty useful for web designers as they can really make a website stand out from the crowd. Some websites simply are in need of a neat background pattern, in order to get rid of the simplicity …

Animated Gifs is a New Way of Good App Presentation

App DesignNataly Birch • March 27, 2014

Everything has a habit to return, and gif animations that for a long time lost its dominance, popularity and utility among developers has taken a fighting stance nowadays. Although it is still the same array of images that are consistently …

New Sets of Free Social Media & Bookmarking Icons

FreebiesAndrian Valeanu • March 24, 2014

Social Media icons are of great help to designers and good quality icons make it possible for designers to it. Social media icons has been influential nowadays and a requirement for blogs and websites to have a proper social media …

Life in Motion Road and Travel Theme in Website Design

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • March 21, 2014

Images of roads, videos featuring highways and a keen sense of spiritual journeys and voyages – today we are going to take a look at diverse well-crafted website designs that bear imprint of a travel theme. Though it seems that …

CAPTCHAs’ Effect on UX and How to Fix It

UX DesignArmen Ghazaryan • March 19, 2014

As the role of website user experience rapidly emerges, more and more traditional web development techniques are being questioned and among those CAPTCHAs are on the first place. CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers …

Elegant Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts

FreebiesAndrian Valeanu • March 15, 2014

Elegance is in the eye of the beholder. Font selection can be very complicated should you listen to different type specialists, graphic designers, creative publishers and branding professionals. People have their biases on what a good type is, what is …